There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Do not worry! The Almighty God knows all your need.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.